- Maza of the Moon
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Maza of the Moon Author(s) Otis Adelbert Kline Country United States Language English Series Robert Grandon Genre(s) Science fiction novel Publisher A C McClurg & Co Publication date 1930 Media type Print (Hardback) Pages 342 pp ISBN NA OCLC Number 7585374 Maza of the Moon is a science fiction novel by Otis Adelbert Kline. It was first published in book form in 1930 by A C McClurg & Co. The novel was originally serialized in four parts in the magazine Argosy beginning in December, 1929.
Plot introduction
Ted Dustin, an American inventor, seeks to win a prize of one million dollars by being the first person to touch the moon with an object launched from Earth. He devises a huge gun, which fires upon the surface of the moon. Shortly thereafter, the moon fires back, and war breaks out between the planet and its satellite. Using a videophone he invented, Ted hails communication with the moon. A beautiful woman and her guards first reply, but their transmission is cut off by warlike yellow aliens. Ted eventually heads to the moon in a spacecraft of his own design, and meets the titular character, who turns out to be the beautiful woman from the transmission, as well as a princess of one of the two groups that inhabit the moon.
Publication history
Categories:- 1930 novels
- American science fiction novels
- Novels first published in serial form
- Moon in fiction
- Works originally published in Argosy (magazine)
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